People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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